Jack Daniel's Old No. 7

Fourth tasting of the evening. Watafak! Strong smell of rubbing alcohol or tincture on dill. And also the smell of French perfumery (+ apple and pear) in the paint shop. The taste is strongest perfumery and sweet urine. The strongest alcoholic burning sensation in taste and aftertaste. Very bad! Like vodka with strong flavors.

Pre-Distiller tasting.

It's Jack. Not the liquid gold its rabid fans claim, nor the bottom shelf rot-gut many bourbon enthusiasts accuse it of being. Nose is full of bananas...LOTS of bananas. Palate is a little flat but alright - bananas still there, some oak and brown sugar thrown in. Finish is hollow and lets it down. Not a sipper and the price is ambitious, but if you need some cocktail fuel there are plenty of worse options. So there - I've probably managed to piss off 90% of people likely to write a whiskey review.